Welcome to the dispatch. I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is, believe it or not,

Medi Hassan. He is the co-founder of the recently founded Media site Zetto.

He previously worked for MS NBC where he hosted the

Medi Hassan show on Peacock and was a regular commentator and guest anchor on

the network. Before that he hosted a TV show on Qatar's Al Jazeera network.

He is also author of the book, When Every Argument, The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking.

It is a fiery podcast, as you can probably imagine.

We focus mainly on what is going on in Israel and Gaza, but the goal here is to seek clarity

where Medi believes, what his philosophy is, where I think he may have been

propagandistic in some of his arguments on Twitter and elsewhere.

I think you'll find this conversation interesting and revealing. Without further ado, I think you'll find this conversation interesting and revealing.

Without further ado, I give you Medi Hassan. Many Hassan, welcome to the dispatch podcast.

Thank you for having.

Well, Medi, I think we probably have a lot of disagreements on what is going over in the Middle

East, but if we can get clarity, I think this podcast of where

those differences are, I think that this podcast will be worth it. Let me just

begin by asking you if Medi Hassan was Prime Minister of Israel on October 7, how would he have responded to the attacks?

So I've lost this question before recently on another show and I'll say the same thing, first of all that I told the other interview, which is,

if I was Benjamin Netanyahu on

October the 7th and saw that horror go out on my watch with no military there in time with a

group that I'd help prop up for years I'd'd have quit. I'd have had some self-respect, I'd have some shame, and my first

reaction as Prime Minister of Israel would to no longer be Prime Minister of Israel. I would have quit.

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